{"id":6,"date":"2006-07-07T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T03:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/6-ah-microsoft-youve-done-it-again.html"},"modified":"2006-07-07T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T03:21:42","slug":"ah-microsoft-youve-done-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/6-ah-microsoft-youve-done-it-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah Microsoft, You&#8217;ve Done It Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"I have just experienced a day of getting my crippled laptop back to life again. \ud83d\ude10 It&#8217;s no fun when you are trying to meet deadlines and fix your PC!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFinally I had to resort to reinstalling XP and my troubles went from bad to worse!  XP refused to activate an promptly logged me off every time I tried to log in.  It seems that as I had recently replaced both the motherboard and the hard drive, Microsoft refused to believe I was the legitimate owner of the XP license!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt least to their credit Microsoft were able to fix the problem over the phone but it took some time and a lot of numbers were involved! Ah Microsoft, You&#8217;ve Done It Again! \ud83d\ude42","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just experienced a day of getting my crippled laptop back to life again. \ud83d\ude10 It&#8217;s no fun when you are trying to meet deadlines and fix your PC! Finally I had to resort to reinstalling XP and my troubles went from bad to worse! XP refused to activate an promptly logged me off &#8230; <a title=\"Ah Microsoft, You&#8217;ve Done It Again!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/6-ah-microsoft-youve-done-it-again.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ah Microsoft, You&#8217;ve Done It Again!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}